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Full Show Podcast: 06 May 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Bryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spunk for Business Technology that keeps business
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Speaker 1: moving US talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning of six after five. Great to
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Speaker 2: have your company coming up on the show. The amalgamation Ultimatan,
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Speaker 2: we'll look at that shortly. The UK will go there
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Speaker 2: ahead of their local elections. Two thirds of inmates here
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand released from jail go on to commit
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Speaker 2: new crimes within two years. We'll ask why. Mike Jones
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Speaker 2: from benz on the unemployment number, and we've got global
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Speaker 2: dairy trade auction numbers for you this morning too. The
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Speaker 2: agenda Instade sixth of made Pete Higgsitt says the US
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Speaker 2: around ceaseply is not over. What they have done so
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Speaker 2: far doesn't meet the threshold. Who actually get back to war.
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Speaker 3: As a direct gift from the United States to the world,
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Speaker 3: we have established a powerful red, white and blue dome
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Speaker 3: over the street. American destroyers are on station support about
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Speaker 3: hundreds of fighter jets, helicopters, drones, and surveillance aircraft providing
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Speaker 3: twenty four to seven overwatch for peaceful commercial vessels.
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Speaker 2: The big he Man and his bluster just cannot answer
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Speaker 2: basic questions about how this sort of work. I'll have
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Speaker 2: details on a second, or i won't have details text
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Speaker 2: because he said nothing. This is how Trump is explaining
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Speaker 2: what's going on in the straight at the moment.
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Speaker 4: Even shooting those boats, They've got three or four guys.
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Speaker 2: They get a little machine gun in front.
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Speaker 5: They're shooting at one of our ships.
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Speaker 4: That's meant for it.
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Speaker 2: It bounces.
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Speaker 4: It wouldn't even know they're being shot out.
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Speaker 6: And then they take it out with an Apache helicopter
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Speaker 6: in about two seconds.
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Speaker 7: They go Apache Apache ship northwest ten degrees. Turns are
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Speaker 7: a pool.
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Speaker 8: I don't like that.
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Speaker 7: You know, you lose people.
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Speaker 4: All these people are so unnecessary.
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Speaker 2: To the UK. Starmer's got a message for Tehran speaking
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Speaker 2: of them. This is after all those attacks on Jews
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Speaker 2: in London.
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Speaker 9: I've seen this poison up close. I've seen the damage
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Speaker 9: it does when it takes hold. I don't know what
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Speaker 9: it demands to root it out. A coordinated approve, an
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Speaker 9: unwavering result, zero tolerance for failure. My government is using
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Speaker 9: the full force of the state to that end.
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Speaker 2: And finally this morning, for our Dolly Parton, she's not
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Speaker 2: working nine to five at the moment has six state
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Speaker 2: run at the Coliseum Theater at Sesar's Palace, Las Vegas
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Speaker 2: over because of health issues.
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Speaker 7: Good news is, I'm responding really well to medgs and
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Speaker 7: treatments and I'm improving every day.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 7: The bad news is, It's going to take me a
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Speaker 7: little while before I'm up to stage performance level because
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Speaker 7: some of the meds and treatments make me a little
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Speaker 7: bit swimy headed. As my grandma used to say.
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Speaker 2: Gotta love her.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spunk for business Technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: news talks, it'd be.
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Speaker 2: Nine after five nine nine two, the number of text
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Speaker 2: always love to hear from you. We will head to
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Speaker 2: the UK later in the program and talk about those elections,
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Speaker 2: plus Starmer's little speech there on anti Semitism. It's one
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Speaker 2: of his weak points at the moment, isn't it. I mean, well,
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Speaker 2: it's seen in the UK is one of his weak points.
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Speaker 2: It is being too liberal when it comes to those
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Speaker 2: marches and the anti semitism there. Anyway, coming back home,
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Speaker 2: the Salvation Army has a report out this morning, and
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Speaker 2: before you roll your eyes because some of them are
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Speaker 2: a long read and they're not necessarily that good. But
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Speaker 2: this one makes just states a fact and it's one
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Speaker 2: that we've known for a while. So more than forty
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Speaker 2: percent of people who are released from prison go back
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Speaker 2: there within two years, and about two thirds, so sixty
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Speaker 2: percent re offend within two years. So if you get
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Speaker 2: out of prison, there's a very high chance that within
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Speaker 2: a couple of years, you'll either be back behind bars
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Speaker 2: or you'll be arrested for committing a new crime. And
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Speaker 2: what does this tell you? Well, I mean, they're going
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Speaker 2: to come on the program this morning and they're going
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Speaker 2: to say it's because of housing. There's when people are
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Speaker 2: released from prison, they don't go into secure housing, and
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Speaker 2: then they are more likely they'll go and live with
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Speaker 2: gang members, or they'll go be paroled somewhere and they'll
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Speaker 2: be in a bad crowd, bad friends, and they'll go
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Speaker 2: on to reoffend. And what about those who don't Are
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Speaker 2: the rest of sixty percent of people who don't return
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Speaker 2: to prison? Are they all going to wonderful homes? And
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Speaker 2: you know, is it housing that is causing that problem?
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Speaker 2: And if so, how do you explain the people who
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Speaker 2: don't go to good houses but still don't reoffend. What
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Speaker 2: else is going on? What's happening inside the prison when
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Speaker 2: they're there, is anyone actually being rehabilitated. And the fundamental question,
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Speaker 2: if you don't want to be rehabilitated, then you never
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Speaker 2: will be not even a question. If you don't want it,
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Speaker 2: it won't happen. And unfortunately, if you look at the
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Speaker 2: numbers inside our prisons at the moment, most don't want rehabilitation,
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Speaker 2: aren't interested saying no to doing any form of glass
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Speaker 2: or work. Eleven after five, Ryan Bridge, it should be
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Speaker 2: we'll give you the global dairy trade options next, plus
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Speaker 2: Mike Jones, B and Z on unemployment.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: News Talk ZB five thirteen. So up one and a
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Speaker 2: half percent. This is the global dairy trade option overnight.
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Speaker 2: That's the overall number for us. The ones we really
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Speaker 2: care about. Skim milk powder up three percent, whole milk
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Speaker 2: powder up two point two percent, Mozzarella we sell a
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Speaker 2: bit of that to the Chinese, and I'll so we're
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Speaker 2: up four point seven percent, and butter coming down slightly
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Speaker 2: two point six percent. You're on news talks. He'd be
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Speaker 2: more on that in a second. Ryan Bridge, Right, let's
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Speaker 2: go to today's unemployment number, which we're going to get
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Speaker 2: at about quarter to eleven this morning, we'll get the
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Speaker 2: job's number. This is Q one. Unemployment expected to hold
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Speaker 2: around five point four percent, may tick up slightly to
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Speaker 2: five and a half. Still more people looking for jobs
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Speaker 2: and jobs available. Mike Jones, chief economist at Being in
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Speaker 2: Z with me this morning, get it, Mike, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: This is quarter one, so basically pre war. I mean
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Speaker 2: there'll be a bit of war, but mainly pre war.
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Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, that's right. These numbers have been overtaken by
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Speaker 10: events a little bit. I think we'll see probably a
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Speaker 10: picture of a steadying but still pretty sluggish sort of
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Speaker 10: jobs environment from these figures.
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Speaker 2: Where are you picking it's going to peak unemployment?
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Speaker 10: Well, it wasn't so long ago. We thought actually these
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Speaker 10: Q one numbers would mark the peak, but of course
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Speaker 10: that's changed in light of events. We now think unemployment
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Speaker 10: probably drifts up over most of this year and peaks
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Speaker 10: set five point eight percent by the end of the year.
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Speaker 2: So when we're talking about a recovery and sort of jobs,
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Speaker 2: we're looking at twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 10: Now that's I think what we are looking at. I
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Speaker 10: think that that picture of a recovery in labor market
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Speaker 10: this conditions has proven elusive and then sliding into twenty
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Speaker 10: twenty seven. Of course, the labor market is the last
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Speaker 10: shoe to drop. It does tend to lag the rest
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Speaker 10: of the economy. So if we do see a bit
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Speaker 10: of a steadying and economic growth over the second half
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Speaker 10: of this year, or that would pave the way for
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Speaker 10: a better looking labor market yet next year.
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Speaker 2: And is this number about an increase in the number
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Speaker 2: of workers or is it about job losses?
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Speaker 10: More the format, we actually do think we've got some
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Speaker 10: job's growth in the court, not a whole lot, but
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Speaker 10: an increase of zero point two percent. That would only
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Speaker 10: actually be the second quarter in the last eighteen months
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Speaker 10: in which you've got job's growth. But we don't think
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Speaker 10: that will be enough to offset the growth and the
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Speaker 10: labor supply through the quarter, So you still get a
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Speaker 10: list in unemployment or a slight nudge up and unemployment
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Speaker 10: on our forecast to five and a half the season.
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Speaker 2: Mike, how important is this number for our economy because
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Speaker 2: the last time we spoke about it, well, the last
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Speaker 2: time we had a quarterly result, it's very much about
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Speaker 2: giving people confidence. I mean, if you know that if
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Speaker 2: you're looking for work and you know there's a job
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Speaker 2: out there, or if you're in a job you don't
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Speaker 2: like and you want to move to a better one,
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Speaker 2: or you want to get a pay rise, all those
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Speaker 2: things are important for growth.
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Speaker 10: Right, It's right, that's right, and I think the lady
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Speaker 10: market has been in this sluggish, slow and low environment
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Speaker 10: where there's been a bit of job's growth, but not
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Speaker 10: a lot, as I say, not generally enough to offset
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Speaker 10: growth in the labor supply. And so that's meant that
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Speaker 10: opportunities to move has been a little bit more few
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Speaker 10: and far between than we would like, and that's kept
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Speaker 10: wage growth relatively low as well.
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Speaker 2: Mike, good to have you on the show. This morning
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Speaker 2: is always Mike Jones. Chief economist, Ben z It is
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Speaker 2: sixteen after five. It's interesting what's happening in Canada. You know,
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Speaker 2: Trump always said that there will be a breakaway state
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Speaker 2: from Canada and they'll become the fifty first US state. Well,
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Speaker 2: Alberta oil rich very well to do. Thank you very
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Speaker 2: much in that regard. Three hundred and two thousand signatures
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Speaker 2: they have collected for a referee to leave Canada little
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Speaker 2: separatist breakaway state. They needed one hundred and seventy eight
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Speaker 2: thousand signatures. They've got more than three hundred, so it
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Speaker 2: will trigger a vote. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that
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Speaker 2: they will leave. The vote will then mean that they
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Speaker 2: negotiate with the federal government to try and leave. However,
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Speaker 2: they reckon it's actually unlikely to do anything or unlikely
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Speaker 2: to pass. They hated. The big problem they had is
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Speaker 2: that the federal government i e. Trudeau and the Liberal
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Speaker 2: governments of which they've had many now, were trying to
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Speaker 2: hamstring hams. They were felt hamstrung, I should say by
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Speaker 2: exports and production of oil. That all the regulations and
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Speaker 2: all of the red tape and all of the hoops
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Speaker 2: they had jumped through were costing them billions of dollars.
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Speaker 2: And of course state like that oil production. State doesn't
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Speaker 2: like it. So they kicked this off when Trudeau was
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Speaker 2: in power. But now of course they've got Mark Carney,
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Speaker 2: and apparently Carne even though they don't like the Liberals,
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Speaker 2: is more like Trudeau was eighteen after five.
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Speaker 2: News talks that'd be five twenty. You know the creepy
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Speaker 2: looking German guy that some reckon murdered an abducted Medaline McCann.
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Speaker 2: Will the Brits want I'm extradited to the UK to
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Speaker 2: stand trial for murder. This is Christian Brickner. The Telegraph
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Speaker 2: in the UK is reporting that police reckon. They can
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Speaker 2: gather enough evidence, and they've got enough strong evidence to
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Speaker 2: force some charges against him. The problem is the Germans
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Speaker 2: and their constitution that stops you from extraditing anyone to
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Speaker 2: a non EU country, and of course after Brexit, that's
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Speaker 2: exactly what the UK is. Bryan Bridge for prisoners back
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Speaker 2: in jail within two years. In New Zealand, two thirds
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Speaker 2: commit new crimes within two years. The Salvation Army report
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Speaker 2: out this morning blames housing. Ian Hudson, the Salvation Army
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Speaker 2: mission officer with me, Ian, good morning, good morning, to
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Speaker 2: be with you. Is that number getting better? We are more.
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Speaker 2: I've just got a text here from Graham, says Ryan.
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Speaker 2: In the eighties, I remember from experience the recidivism rate
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Speaker 2: was around eighty percent.
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't know how far back it would be at
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Speaker 5: that level, but this has been quite whatever level it
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Speaker 5: used to be. This is very high world by world standards,
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Speaker 5: and it's been pretty stable. It hasn't gone up or
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Speaker 5: down much for we've been doing these reports State of
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Speaker 5: the Nation reports now for about twenty years. It's not
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Speaker 5: got any better, and we've got one of the highest
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Speaker 5: imprisonment rates in the world, and we just think it's
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Speaker 5: time to try and do something to bring those numbers down.
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Speaker 2: You're saying housing is a big problem that when they
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Speaker 2: get out they don't have a good house to go to,
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Speaker 2: more likely to commit crimes as a result, you said
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Speaker 2: that we are doing worse on this measure than other countries.
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Speaker 2: Are other countries doing better with housing?
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Speaker 5: Yes they are. I mean the issues that people in
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Speaker 5: New Zealand face when they leave prison is that they
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Speaker 5: don't have any access to landlords when they're trying to
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Speaker 5: arrange for leaving prison. Obviously, I mean when you're inside
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Speaker 5: you don't have that access. You're unlikely I mean landlords
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Speaker 5: would have some degree of not wanting to take you anyway.
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Speaker 5: And then they're released very often or too often without
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Speaker 5: any ID so they can't get access to MSD money.
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Speaker 5: So they don't have enough money to put up for
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Speaker 5: bond or any of those kinds of things. And so
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Speaker 5: basically when they are when they set free, if you like,
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Speaker 5: they end up with three hundred and fifty dollars of
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Speaker 5: what's called the Steps to Freedom grant, which isn't really
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Speaker 5: much good get you into any kind of decent housing.
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Speaker 5: And what we've discovered, well, the things that we've seen.
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Speaker 5: One of the reports that was done by the University
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Speaker 5: of Auckland study had over one hundred people that they
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Speaker 5: looked at. They found that people that didn't get good
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Speaker 5: or stable housing are four point six times more likely
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Speaker 5: to re offend and those who had stable housing. Right,
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Speaker 5: So that's kind of what we're aiming at to try
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Speaker 5: to bring that.
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Speaker 2: I understand. And the other problem you've got is when
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Speaker 2: they're in prison, are they being rehabilitated, what percentage of
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Speaker 2: them actually want to be.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's quite a low percentage of people that get
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Speaker 5: any kind of help well are in prison, and.
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Speaker 2: So how many wanted well, it's pretty.
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Speaker 5: Hard to estimate that. What I do know is that
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Speaker 5: quite a few people when they leave prison I actually
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Speaker 5: want to turn their life around. I mean, they don't
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Speaker 5: want to end up back there. And what we see,
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Speaker 5: as you mentioned in the introduction, that forty three percent
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Speaker 5: of prisoners end up back in prison. And I mean
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Speaker 5: I remember visiting prison sometime back in one of the
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Speaker 5: workers there describing the way that she saw young men
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Speaker 5: leaving prison and then she saw them in the community
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Speaker 5: that they were so excited leaving, wanting to you know,
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Speaker 5: looking forward to it, and then the.
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Speaker 2: Hope it turns to custard once they get out. Ian
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Speaker 2: appreciate your time this morning in Hadson Salvation Army Mission
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Speaker 2: Officer times twenty four minutes after five one of those
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Speaker 2: catch twenty two things. I mean, someone commits a crime
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Speaker 2: and they do the time, and you want them to
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Speaker 2: be punished. Yeah, good, and then when they get out, unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: they do have to get out. I mean, you can't
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Speaker 2: just imprison people forever, can you, Unless I've done something
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Speaker 2: particularly hengous, can't in prison them forever. And when they
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Speaker 2: get out, they're going to maybe live next door to you,
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Speaker 2: or they're going to go on shop lit from a
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Speaker 2: store near you. So it's kind of in all our
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Speaker 2: interests to make sure that they are rehabilitated. But as
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Speaker 2: I said, if they don't want to be, they won't be.
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Speaker 2: Twenty five after five the early.
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Speaker 10: Talks AV.
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Speaker 2: News Talks, there be twenty seven after five. There are
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Speaker 2: basically two big things that governments, the state controls. That
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Speaker 2: affects the economy, therefore affects us. All the politicians make big,
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Speaker 2: grandiose statements. They promise to change the world, but the
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Speaker 2: reality is a lot simpler and more basic than that.
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Speaker 2: Spending and stability. Romanians are going to bed right now
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Speaker 2: unsure of who is going to run their country. The
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Speaker 2: government's just lost a confidence vote there the Socialists have
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Speaker 2: cided bizarrely with the far right of all groups to
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Speaker 2: collapse the coalition. This is bad for their economy because
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Speaker 2: business relies on stability and predictability. Their absence knee caps
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Speaker 2: and investment decisions, therefore growth and it's a problem. Same
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Speaker 2: reason investors right now dittery. In the UK, the long
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Speaker 2: term bond yields are the highest they have been since
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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety eight. Why because Starmer is going to get
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Speaker 2: a hiding in local elections in the coming days, and
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Speaker 2: his replacement, either Angela Rayner or even the outside of
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Speaker 2: Andy Burnham, the King of the North. We've talked about
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Speaker 2: him before, are left of him. They are further left
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Speaker 2: of Starma and that could mean more spending and borrowing,
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Speaker 2: something markets unsurprisingly think the Motherland can ill afford a
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Speaker 2: present which brings us neatly to spending. Look no further
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Speaker 2: than across the TASM. The RBA yesterday hiked the cash rate,
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Speaker 2: putting mortgage costs up for the third time this year,
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Speaker 2: and it comes with a warning to Jim Chalmers there
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Speaker 2: Nikola willis equivalent her jogging buddy in DC. Watch your spending, Cobber,
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Speaker 2: or you'll make this worse. Too much spending is fuel
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Speaker 2: on the fire, and the fire is burning, heading to
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Speaker 2: five percent inflation there, thank you very much. Pretty much
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Speaker 2: every economy us there, including Paul Bloxham, our rockstar Economists,
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Speaker 2: says the key risk to Ozzie's right now is the
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Speaker 2: threat of an Australian budget due Tuesday with bazookers that
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Speaker 2: more with more cash than can be expected and afforded,
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Speaker 2: that could force rates higher. Of course, all of this
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Speaker 2: is to say there are plenty of lessons around the
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Speaker 2: world just in the last twelve hours, let alone modern
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Speaker 2: history that politician's main job is basically to be responsible,
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Speaker 2: get along with one another and don't be tempted to
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Speaker 2: buy votes with cash you can't afford in the short
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Speaker 2: term and that we will pay for in the long term.
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Speaker 2: Here on News Talks, there'd be we will head to
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Speaker 2: the UK after news.
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Speaker 1: Hearritt first, Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for
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Speaker 1: business technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: News Talks ad B twenty four away from six there
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Speaker 2: on News Talks, there'd be great becoming this Wednesday morning,
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Speaker 2: we're going to head to the UK. Another arson attack,
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Speaker 2: this one on a Jewish community in London, will be
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Speaker 2: live there also Mahe Drysdale on the super City deadline
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Speaker 2: coming up before six o'clock this morning, and our reporters
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Speaker 2: in a second, just very quickly. The good news on
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Speaker 2: the straight up, holl moves is that well the ceasefire
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Speaker 2: isn't breaking, so that's good. They're not going back to war.
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Speaker 2: But as I said to you from the very beginning
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Speaker 2: of this, this war was going to be over. But
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Speaker 2: that's not the important thing for us, not the important
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Speaker 2: thing for the world. It's getting the straight open. And
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Speaker 2: on that front, we are no closer really than we
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Speaker 2: were yesterday. I mean, the Americans are in there with
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Speaker 2: a bunch of sailors and a bunch of navy vessels
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Speaker 2: and a bunch of bunch of destroyers, but we're no
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Speaker 2: real closer because when you ask Pete higsth and he's
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Speaker 2: just held a prince conference overnight, what if you're a
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Speaker 2: ship sitting there right now in the Gulf waiting to
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Speaker 2: go through, how do you know whether you can go
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Speaker 2: through or not? Is it safe? Am I going to
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Speaker 2: be bombed? Am I going to Is there a speedboat?
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Speaker 2: You know? How do you who initiates the crossing and
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Speaker 2: didn't answer the question, didn't answer the question. There was
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Speaker 2: a weird bit earlier in the press conference. It's kind
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Speaker 2: of this bizarre comment about whether the US was using
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Speaker 2: Kamakazi dolphins to help with the Iran war. I know,
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Speaker 2: apparently there's been some reports that Iran could be looking
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Speaker 2: at using dolphins armed with mines for attacks.
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Speaker 3: And I can't confirm or to know whether we have
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Speaker 3: Kamakazi dolphins, but I can confirm they don't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so very funny, but also not a lot
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Speaker 2: of information that we got from Pete Hegseith this morning.
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Speaker 2: I have to say, it's twenty two away from six
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge. Just go to our reporters around the country
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Speaker 2: Clum and Tonedin Morning Colum Right, the Dunedin Studied getting
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Speaker 2: a bit of a change. What's changing, Well, it's just shifting.
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Speaker 11: Its focus now to pass the midlife years for it's study.
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Speaker 11: The Multi Disciplinary Health and Development Study which follows the
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Speaker 11: lives of more than a thousand babies born here in
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Speaker 11: Dnedan between nineteen seventy two and seventy three. So it's
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Speaker 11: just finished its age fifty two data collection phase. So
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Speaker 11: this is New Zealand's longest running long the Tudoral Study.
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Speaker 11: Ninety two percent of people still take part, so that
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Speaker 11: makes it the world's best participation rates for research of
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Speaker 11: this kind. Most studies rre and only see about fifty
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Speaker 11: percent of its members still. The study director is Professor
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Speaker 11: Mowana Theodore. She says they've revealed the impact of early
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Speaker 11: life on adulthood. They've now completed the midlife assessment and
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Speaker 11: so next us starting to look at how to prevent
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Speaker 11: age related conditions like dementia.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather fine?
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Speaker 11: To start with, but scattered rain develops today the high
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Speaker 11: northerlies and seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Clear in christis morning, Claire, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: What's the latest, Gloria Vail?
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Speaker 12: Well, this one's a glory of old teacher who will
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Speaker 12: spend the next ten months on home detention after attacking
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Speaker 12: four boys within the Christian community. Open Justice reports that
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Speaker 12: Vigilant stand True was found guilty of some representative charges
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Speaker 12: of assault with a blunt instrument in January, after attacking
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Speaker 12: the children with tools ranging from pitchforks to shovels. Now
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Speaker 12: these assaults occurred between two thousand and one and twenty thirteen.
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Speaker 12: The judge Tony Zoab has accepted that stand True was
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Speaker 12: under pressure at the time, but nothing could justify these assaults.
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Speaker 12: One of the victims, who has now grown to be
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Speaker 12: an adult, says he finds it really hard to quantify
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Speaker 12: the mental strain that was caused by years of abuse
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Speaker 12: at this man's hands.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather clear for christ Church? Fine?
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Speaker 12: Aside from a bit of evening high cloud expected northerlys
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Speaker 12: and high twenty nice one.
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Speaker 2: Thank you enjoy Max and Wellington morning Max, good morning. Hey,
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Speaker 2: I thought this is today good news about well our
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Speaker 2: reprieve for now, at least on those Westport Wellington flights.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, some late funding coming in to save the route.
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Speaker 13: Origin Air was to shut it down this month. It
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Speaker 13: was supposed to be the first major victim of obviously
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Speaker 13: spiraling jet fuel costs in the country, small market regional aviation,
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Speaker 13: but also the only scheduled service operating from Westport development
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Speaker 13: West Coast and the government approving a month's funding. So
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Speaker 13: obviously a short term measure, but it does in some
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Speaker 13: small positive way. I suppose signal support as we reckon
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Speaker 13: with the future of regional air services Oraginaire itself had
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Speaker 13: only stepped in twenty twenty four when Sounds Air had withdrawn.
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Speaker 2: A new Zealand Judgstar.
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Speaker 13: They're all going to keep reducing their schedule while this
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Speaker 13: run stuff goes on. Nelson complaining just a few days
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Speaker 13: ago that they were losing dozens.
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Speaker 2: Of flights at this rate.
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Speaker 13: How's you with, Max, cloudy with a little drizzle, gusty northerly.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen, Thank you, Good morning.
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Speaker 4: Neber, good morning.
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Speaker 2: What's the story with this? There's an open justice report
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Speaker 2: on this man who was found and concrete under his house.
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Speaker 14: Yes, now, look at the time, this is quite a
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Speaker 14: big story. So a border most likely knew the truth.
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Speaker 14: This was about what really happened to a man, you're
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Speaker 14: quite right, found entombed in concrete. This is beneath his
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Speaker 14: Mount Eden home for sixteen years. So open justice is
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Speaker 14: saying that, you know, like David Stanley, Heart's remains there
22:52
Speaker 14: were found in twenty twenty. This is at a Molborough
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Speaker 14: Street property. This is where he used to operate as
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Speaker 14: a boarding house. So the coroner findings they're really today.
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Speaker 14: They're finding that the cause of the death's still unknown,
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Speaker 14: but it's likely that it happened in two thousand and four.
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Speaker 14: It also suggests Gabriel Ormsby, who continued living in the
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Speaker 14: house until he died in twenty sixteen, knew something about
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Speaker 14: Heart's disappearance. The coroner stopped short of linking Ormsby to
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Speaker 14: the death due to lack of evidence.
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Speaker 2: Though, right, interesting stuff. How's our weather?
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Speaker 15: Cloudy?
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Speaker 14: Isolated showers mainly in the afternoon. Twenty one is the
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Speaker 14: high And I have to say, you've got a new
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Speaker 14: top on.
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Speaker 2: It's an old shirt? Is it an old shirt?
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Speaker 16: It's very nice.
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Speaker 14: I thought, Mike Hosking, it's got that Mike Costking feel
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Speaker 14: about it. I thought, was he giving you fashion say.
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Speaker 2: That, do you know it's actually not my student's my husband.
23:43
Speaker 2: And the only reason I'm wearing it is because I
23:45
Speaker 2: went to the wardrobe this morning, where I thought I
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Speaker 2: had a nice you know, normally wear my white cris
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Speaker 2: do was missing. I like that I wore this one.
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Speaker 14: I think Mike's going to prove when he comes in
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Speaker 14: the year your husband's got great tyst and clothing better
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Speaker 14: than yours.
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Speaker 2: Shall I say thank you? I think never. Eighteen away
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Speaker 2: from six Ryan right, loads of texts coming in on
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Speaker 2: reoffending and prisoners. Ryan, the stats Sally's have just made
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Speaker 2: up these numbers and throwing more money at the problem
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Speaker 2: won't stop the scumbags reoffending. Lots of text of that ILK.
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Speaker 2: Jacqueline says the problem here is who's monitoring. It's the
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Speaker 2: probation Service. And another says Ryan, throwing money at problems
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Speaker 2: doesn't fix them. And really what we need to fix
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Speaker 2: is literacy and numerousy and that is exactly what Seymour
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Speaker 2: and Stanford and Willis are trying to do. Seventeen away
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Speaker 2: from six News talks so B We're in London.
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Speaker 1: Next International correspondence with Ends and eye Insurance peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Who's talk their b it has called it to six.
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Speaker 2: It's got to Peter Anderson, our UK europe correspondent, Peter,
24:49
Speaker 2: Nice to have you on the program. I see that
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Speaker 2: Starmer has been talking about anti semitism once, he said, Ryan,
24:55
Speaker 2: good morning to you. Yes.
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Speaker 8: Over recent weeks, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer has faced
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Speaker 8: strong criticism from Jewish groups for not doing enough to
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Speaker 8: tackle antisemitism. He was even booed a few days ago
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Speaker 8: as he visited the site of a recent attack on
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Speaker 8: two Jewish men. Well Today, the Prime Minister hosted more
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Speaker 8: than ninety people at a summit in Downing Street, including
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Speaker 8: senior figures from the police, businesses, universities, the arts and
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Speaker 8: trade unions. And following the discussions, Keir Starmer said recent
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Speaker 8: attacks against British Jews were a crisis for everyone in
25:31
Speaker 8: the country. He issued a specific warning to foreign states
25:36
Speaker 8: such as Iran, which are suspected of being behind some
25:39
Speaker 8: recent incidents. He told Iran that efforts to stir up violence,
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Speaker 8: hatred or division in the UK will not be tolerated,
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Speaker 8: and he promised that tougher legislation to tackle so called
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Speaker 8: malign threats would be fast tracked, with anti terror powers
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Speaker 8: being stepped up. Also at the summit, more money was
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Speaker 8: pledged to protect the uns Jewish communities seem to be
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Speaker 8: at greatest risk and to support community cohesion, for example
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Speaker 8: by giving greater funding to youth and to school initiatives.
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Speaker 2: And we've got more evidence of anti Semitism and action.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 8: The threat faced by Britain's Jewish communities has been highlighted
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Speaker 8: again today with a suspected arson attack at a former
26:23
Speaker 8: synagogue in Whitechapel in East London. Counter Terrorism officers are
26:28
Speaker 8: involved in the investigation, with London's Metropolitan Police already saying
26:33
Speaker 8: that CCTV footage indicates the fire was started deliberately. The
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Speaker 8: building was formerly home to East London Central Synagogue. Police
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Speaker 8: have said they're taking today's incident extremely seriously and are
26:47
Speaker 8: investigating potential links to other recent attacks on London's Jewish community.
26:53
Speaker 8: They've also said to be providing support and security advice
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Speaker 8: to local organizations, to community venue and also to businesses.
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Speaker 2: Peter Anderson, UK Yourope correspondent, Great to have your update
27:05
Speaker 2: this morning, twelve minutes away from six Brilland Bridge to
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Speaker 2: shatter Australia. The RBA Michelle Bullock warning Labor on their
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Speaker 2: budget cash handout that they are expected to deliver next
27:15
Speaker 2: week when Charmers delivers as budget. They have just hiked
27:18
Speaker 2: the official cash right there for the third time this year.
27:21
Speaker 2: And this was Michelle Bullock quite like the cut of
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Speaker 2: herd jib, giving them a bit of a warning.
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Speaker 16: Already, we've seen a sharp increase in fuel and related
27:28
Speaker 16: commodity prices and this is already feeding through to inflation.
27:33
Speaker 16: The recent increases and interest rates will have no impact
27:35
Speaker 16: on this. What these increases do, however, is helped to
27:39
Speaker 16: contain the domestic inflationary pressures after the inflation due to
27:44
Speaker 16: oil and related commodity prices eases.
27:47
Speaker 17: Now.
27:47
Speaker 16: I understand this is a really difficult time for households
27:50
Speaker 16: who are already facing higher fuel prices and other cost
27:53
Speaker 16: of living pressures. But we must get on top of
27:55
Speaker 16: inflation now so that it doesn't get away from us and.
27:59
Speaker 2: Bridge China's twelve minutes away from six councils have been
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Speaker 2: given an ultimatum by the government. You've got three months
28:05
Speaker 2: to come up with a plan to merge or restructure
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Speaker 2: yourselves or government will come in and do it for you.
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Speaker 17: There is a clear carrot, which is a three month
28:12
Speaker 17: window for councils to shape their own destiny and the
28:15
Speaker 17: future of their own local governing arrangements. And if that
28:20
Speaker 17: opportunity is not seized and grasped by local government, then
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Speaker 17: the government will act and do it for those communities.
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Speaker 2: Mahe Drysdale todng amir with me this morning. Mahey, good morning,
28:31
Speaker 2: good morning. Do you want amalgamation? Oh?
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Speaker 6: Look, I think we need to change the way we
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Speaker 6: do things. The local government system was designed in nineteen
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Speaker 6: eighty nine and needs to change. I think everyone's agreeing
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Speaker 6: on that. So yeah, I welcome the opportunity.
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Speaker 2: To do that. Do you will you be able to
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Speaker 2: get this done in three months? Put something in.
28:51
Speaker 6: Look, that's going to be tough.
28:54
Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 6: We've got to work with seven different councils around our
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Speaker 6: region to come up with a plan. But I will
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Speaker 6: definitely be advocating with them that we should do it ourselves.
29:04
Speaker 6: We've been elected by our communities to make decisions for
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Speaker 6: our communities and I think that's a better way than
29:10
Speaker 6: waiting for the government to doing whatever they want to us.
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Speaker 2: Regional council's gone. What is the You know, you've got
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Speaker 2: seven councils to deal with. What sort of structure would
29:21
Speaker 2: be ideal do you think for your area?
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Speaker 6: Look, I'm not exactly sure. I think it's less and
29:31
Speaker 6: you know, the government have set some pretty clear guidelines.
29:33
Speaker 6: You can have a maximum of three unitaries in a region,
29:37
Speaker 6: so you know that that's potentially something that works pretty well.
29:42
Speaker 6: You know, we've got some natural kind of boundaries, I
29:44
Speaker 6: guess if if you kind of think about the Bay
29:47
Speaker 6: of Plenty with us in Western Bay being very aligned
29:51
Speaker 6: in our geography and basically one economy, you know, you've
29:57
Speaker 6: got Rosa and you've got sort of the Eastern councils.
30:01
Speaker 6: So look, I'm not sure exactly where the boundaries end up,
30:05
Speaker 6: but you know that's a conversation that we'd have to
30:08
Speaker 6: have and going to have to do it very quickly,
30:10
Speaker 6: because three months is a tight time frame to get
30:12
Speaker 6: a proposal together.
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Speaker 2: No, it's not long at all, but it's sort of
30:16
Speaker 2: something has to be done with it because it's been
30:17
Speaker 2: a mess for a very long time. As you pointed
30:19
Speaker 2: out at the start of this interview, how much do
30:21
Speaker 2: you reckon we would realistically save from doing something like this.
30:24
Speaker 2: I mean, rape payers hate spending money on councils, no
30:27
Speaker 2: matter which level they're at. Do you think we'd actually
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Speaker 2: save a huge amount.
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Speaker 6: Yes, I do if we do it right. And you
30:36
Speaker 6: know that's where we've got to start doing a lot
30:38
Speaker 6: more sort of shared services, et cetera. So I think
30:41
Speaker 6: there's probably two facets to this. There's a partly a
30:46
Speaker 6: region and there's going to be a whole lot of
30:47
Speaker 6: things that we deliver as a region. And then and
30:51
Speaker 6: then we're going to have the sort of local councils
30:53
Speaker 6: doing a lot more. And I guess you know, Local
30:55
Speaker 6: Water has done well, has showed us that our community
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Speaker 6: is going to save about two hundred million dollars over
31:02
Speaker 6: over ten years. That's what the modeling says. So yeah,
31:05
Speaker 6: I think the opportunities for saving are significant. If you
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Speaker 6: think that's thirty percent of our business, so yeah, I
31:12
Speaker 6: think I think you you could be looking at at
31:15
Speaker 6: hundreds of millions. But you know, it's it's that efficiency ultimately,
31:20
Speaker 6: that that is something that can be achieved better, and
31:25
Speaker 6: you know it that's going to be the challenges is
31:27
Speaker 6: getting all that and getting all that data in three months,
31:31
Speaker 6: selling that to our communities, showing them why this is
31:35
Speaker 6: a good thing. But look, we've got an opportunity and
31:38
Speaker 6: now we've got to sort of try to grasp it.
31:40
Speaker 6: And you know, we've heard the backstop. The government will
31:42
Speaker 6: do it. So you know, I'm certainly an advocate of
31:48
Speaker 6: holding our own destiny and I think that's what we've
31:50
Speaker 6: been elected to do.
31:51
Speaker 2: Mahe drives down, tolling AMAGODV on the show it's eight
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Speaker 2: to six News Talks.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Billie
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Speaker 1: Udition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps Business Moving News Talks ZB.
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Speaker 2: Six to sex News Talks dB. It's interesting what Obama's
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Speaker 2: come out and said. This is Barack Obama, not Michelle.
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Speaker 2: But Barak has said about Michelle. You know how he
32:14
Speaker 2: keeps coming out and criticizing Trump because he takes the bait.
32:17
Speaker 2: How can you not He comes out and see something
32:20
Speaker 2: criticizing Donald Trump and then he gets, you know, dragged
32:24
Speaker 2: through the media. Fox News is doing bits on him,
32:26
Speaker 2: and apparently Michelle just wants him to stop, like you
32:29
Speaker 2: are not the president anymore, so do what most presidents
32:32
Speaker 2: do and go in dark mode and just be quiet.
32:35
Speaker 2: He's come out and a podcast said it's actually causing
32:38
Speaker 2: genuine problems for their marriage, which is interesting. Five Away
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Speaker 2: from six, Ryan Bridge, mich is in the studio Morning
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Speaker 2: Mike thrilled to see you.
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Speaker 4: Ryan.
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Speaker 2: It's on the show today.
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Speaker 4: Well, we're going to talk.
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Speaker 15: About the jobs because it's jobs Day, Q one gen
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Speaker 15: feed March. Of course, expectation it will stay the same,
32:54
Speaker 15: will possibly go up a little smidge, and then they
32:57
Speaker 15: look to the latter part of the year with the
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Speaker 15: war and when does peak and how bad does it get?
33:01
Speaker 8: You run?
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Speaker 4: How much diesels down in price?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. It's now below ninety one again, which
33:05
Speaker 2: was good.
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Speaker 4: Ninety one's virtually cheap.
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Speaker 2: Would we say that it's still we wouldn't.
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Speaker 4: Say that that.
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Speaker 15: I was just I was just ruminating on it this
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Speaker 15: morning because I thought i'd better look it up and
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Speaker 15: double check because I was walking.
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Speaker 4: I was on the walk yesterday.
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Speaker 2: How long are you walking? Haven't well steps in a day?
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Speaker 4: Twelve thirteen thousand solidays? How you need to do a few.
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Speaker 15: So anyways, walking past the service station, I looked at
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Speaker 15: the numbers and I thought they looked cheap to me.
33:29
Speaker 15: So I went home double checked it, and they've come
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Speaker 15: it like diesels down like sixty cents a.
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Speaker 2: Liter, Yeah, sixty down sixteen percent from the highs of
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Speaker 2: early last night.
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Speaker 15: And of course when it went up at sixty cents
33:39
Speaker 15: a liter, it's like literally the end of the world.
33:41
Speaker 15: But when it's suddenly dropped in and no one ever,
33:43
Speaker 15: no one's even interested, are they?
33:45
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not, frankly, you're just relieved that it's gone out.
33:48
Speaker 15: So but you're tying it into the spending figures, which
33:50
Speaker 15: are also we'll look at that this morning. So obviously
33:52
Speaker 15: we're spending more.
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Speaker 2: On your less.
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Speaker 4: Did you see that stuff?
33:57
Speaker 2: The interesting number I thought was that we're spending less
33:59
Speaker 2: on groceries, so we're spending more on fuel. How can
34:02
Speaker 2: you spend less on groceries?
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Speaker 4: Does you shop around on the special?
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Speaker 2: Do you buy it? Yeah, to go to buy cheaper brands.
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Speaker 4: You knock back the chocky bicks. You know how it
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Speaker 4: goes anyway, all of that.
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Speaker 2: More so, twelve to thirteen thousand steps, that's not bad.
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Speaker 2: It beats mine ten thousand. News Talks it Be.
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